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On the Internet, what is a dead giveaway that someone is actually a kid? (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

When it's not E2EE, maybe they are right. What's the point of encrypting something that gets decrypted midway by an organization with hundreds of employees, many of them with access, not even talking about law enforcement and accidental criminals.

EDIT: I mean, illusion of security may be sometimes worse that lack of that little security which comes with it. Everything is complex.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

The point of encrypting something that gets decrypted midway by an organization is that there are worse actors than the organization out there. I'm not really scared of Steam abusing my credit card info, but I am afraid of random internet strangers.

Also remember that https doesn't just protect your data, it also verifies that you're actually on the website you think you are. The internet is basically unusable without this guarantee, especially on a network you share with others.